Year: 2015
Local Review: Former Tides – What We Are EP
The post-hardcore scene has been dwindling as of late, but these guys brought some serious crashing guitar riffs to the studio just in case you forgot. The title track gets the EP started and really displays the overall sound Former Tides are going for. … read more
Local Review: Fossil Arms – Only Ever Have Nightmares When...
Fossil Arms = New Order + Ian Curtis … read more
Local Review: Faces In Mountains – Brain Slave EP
Faces In Mountains = Lymbyc Systym + Bugfood + Mooninite … read more
Local Review: Dusk Raps – All Is Fair
Dusk Raps = El-P + Aesop Rock + YZE … read more
Local Review: DulceSky – Spies Of The System: 03–14
DulceSky = Depeche Mode + Alcest + The Cure + Echo and the Bunnymen … read more
Local Review: False Witness – Ascent To Chaos
False Witness Ascent To Chaos Self-Released Street: 03.28 False Witness = Avenged Sevenfold + Mudvayne + Sepultura Upon first listen to False Witness and their album Ascent To Chaos, I felt that I was handed another generic melodic metalcore release within the “paint by numbers” realm. After the fourth listen, I realized that I was
Local Review: Ethan Blackburn – Impressions of Her
Ethan Blackburn = Herbie Hancock + Jaco Pastorius … read more
Local Review: Erasole James – Tawa’s Nephew
Erasole James = Blu +Eddy Baker … read more
Local Review: Empty-Handed – Self-titled EP
Empty-Handed Self-titled EP Empty-Handed = Cat Stevens + Counting Crows This band could probably sell 3,000 copies of this EP on the U of U campus in a couple hours. “I need time to think this whole life through/I’m so sick and tired of feeling blue” warbles Empty-Handed on “This Life” while alt-countryish emo arpeggios
Local Review: Fasba Fpel – Book LXVII—Mobile Home Manor
Fasba Fpel = Red Krayola + Jazz Fusion + June of 44 + early Pink Floyd … read more
Local Review: Eyes on Kites – New Lens
Eyes on Kites’ most recent release, New Lens, is able to constructively take aim at a certain nostalgia—not necessarily in sound, but in feeling—and remind us of a more innocent, purer time in our lives. … read more
Local Review: Entomb the Wicked – Mortem
Vocalist/lead guitarist Tyler Bromberg has intriguingly diverse vocal abilities that come through in the slower tune, “Despondency,” which has a very Alice in Chains “Rooster” vibe to it. However, the rest of Mortem consists of faster, mosh-worthy death metal. … read more
